datetime indicator won't show today's date if you've ever clicked on any others

[Nick Moffitt]

Binary package hint: indicator-datetime

If you click on the date/time indicator and scroll through to any other month or day, it remains where you left it even after you click elsewhere and then back to re-open it. This means that if I browse January 1970, I can never learn from this tool what today's date is, as it will always show January 1970.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: indicator-datetime 0.0.6-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 28 14:09:17 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-datetime

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Marking as wishlist as you can see what today's date is (it's written right above) but there's no way to move the calendar back to today's date.

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

Oh wow, I didn't notice today's date was in there, because it was written in black on dark grey in the default theme. Nobody I'd asked in person about this could read that either.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Adding an Ayatana Design task as we probably need to address the issue of having a button or some other way to return to today's date in the calendar on the menu.

[Christian Dywan (kalikiana)]

Perhaps the date should simply be reset when the indicator menu is closed (for a few seconds).

[Ben West (bwsithspawn00)]

Having just missed turning in a homework because I thought it was last week, I would like to testify as to this bug's importance. I wouldn't expect it to keep highlighting the old date after the widget is closed, so I don't think a "clear" button is necessary: it can just remove the old date.

[Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)]

This will require a fix to ido for "set date" which will have to be invoked on "about to show" in the indicator datetime.

[Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)]

attached ido calendar menu item update which is half of a fix for this bug

[Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)]

added some code to reset the calendar after a while yesterday, I'm testing that at the moment to make sure it works as expected, apparently mterry is going to be a hero and get a dbusmenu close signal in which would make this a lot better.

[Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)]

mterry's opened/closed signal has been merged so will hook into that and ditch the timer.

[Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)]

Setting this bug back to confirmed after testing seems to not work with toplevel menus, dbusmenu changes required.

[Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)]

I've created the following bug to group these calendar widget related issues;

"IDO calendar should replace GtkCalendar wrapper with a grid layout menu"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ido/+bug/742370

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Karl is that one likely to be fixed for natty?

[Karl Lattimer (karl-qdh)]

I'll discuss with mterry if we can get the closed signal sent on menu close, that way we don't have to mess around with strange timers which might mess up the user experience more.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-datetime - 0.2.3-0ubuntu1

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indicator-datetime (0.2.3-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    ∘ Use GTK directly for detecting when the menu appears and disappears
      to reset the date (LP: #649800)
    ∘ Handle items being removed from the locations list by choosing
      another item in the list (LP: #740948)
    ∘ Check for resume in the service and update the label as well
      (LP: #759854)
 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:51:20 -0500

[Sylwester (ubuntulinux-org)]

After upgrading to saucy I have this problem so it seems to have resurfaced, version 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad (joerlend.schinstad)]

I can confirm that. It's quite confusing.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

I don't know whether this was ever successfully fixed, but it is now tracked in bug 793450.